THE 'tude

Upon being assigned NCUA as the agency I was to review and evaluate to determine and recommend how it could operate more efficiently and effectively while implementing the regulatory improvement goals of the Trump Administration, I prepared a work plan to use in my approach.

What is a credit union’s greatest relationship builder, but is also the most forgotten and least-optimized asset? If you guessed credit card accounts, you guessed right.

I’d like to say it’s just that as I’ve gotten older I’ve become a curmudgeon, but as I’ve been reminded by a number of people who knew me when I was younger and who seemed all too happy to chime in on this issue, apparently it’s not a newly diagnosed condition.

When asked what takes up most of their time nowadays, many credit union CFOs might say, “Managing more comprehensive risk-management procedures.”

Social Finance Inc., the marketplace lender known as SoFi, has been in the news twice this week. On Feb. 1st, Bloomberg reported that SoFi acquired Zenbanx’s technology for $100 million in stock.

In reading your piece “NCUA: Trump Reg Freeze Does Not Apply To Agency” earlier this week, I feel compelled to clear up a misconception that the Dodd-Frank Act is responsible for the approximately 20% decline of the number of credit unions over the previous five years.